User Accessibility
Fischer is committed to creating products and services that are broadly accessible and
contribute to the productivity of the persons who use them, including users with disabilities,
hearing or vision loss. Fischer products and services conform to the Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. WCAG guidelines are very similar to Section 508 guidelines and are
expected to replace those in Section 508 since the older guidelines do not apply to some of the
newer technologies.
Fischer solutions enable content to be presented in multiple ways without losing meaning,
including presentation by assistive technologies, which makes it easier for users to see and
hear content. Text alternatives are provided for non-text content. Users of assistive technology
can complete forms as well as use information in the forms. All functionality is available from a
keyboard and enough time is provided to read and use the content. Text is readable and
understandable, operates in predictable ways and helps users to avoid and correct mistakes.
The use of WCAG also provides compatibility with current and future user tools.
The Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) for Fischer Identity™ is provided on the
pages that follow.
VPAT™
Voluntary Product Accessibility Template®
Version 1.3
The purpose of the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template, or VPAT™, is to assist
Federal contracting officials and other buyers in making preliminary assessments regarding the
availability of commercial “Electronic and Information Technology” products and services with
features that support accessibility. It is assumed and recommended that offerers will provide
additional contact information to facilitate more detailed inquiries.
The first table of the Template provides a summary view of the Section 508 Standards. The
subsequent tables provide more detailed views of each subsection. There are three columns
in each table. Column one of the Summary Table describes the subsections of subparts B and
C of the Standards. The second column describes the supporting features of the product or
refers you to the corresponding detailed table, e.g., “equivalent facilitation." The third column
contains any additional remarks and explanations regarding the product. In the subsequent
tables, the first column contains the lettered paragraphs of the subsections. The second
column describes the supporting features of the product with regard to that paragraph. The
third column contains any additional remarks and explanations regarding the product.
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Date: April 10, 2017
Name of Product: Fischer Identity™ 6
Contact for more Information (name/phone/email): [email protected]
Summary Table
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Criteria
Supporting Features
Remarks and
explanations
Section 1194.21 Software
Applications and Operating
Systems
Application has been developed to
conform to the Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0.
Relevant items in
this section are
supported.
Section 1194.22 Web-based
Internet Information and
Applications
Application has been developed to
conform to the Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0.
Relevant items in
this section are
supported.
Section 1194.23
Telecommunications Products
Not applicable to application.
Section 1194.24 Video and Multimedia Products
Not applicable to application.
Section 1194.25 Self-Contained,
Closed Products
Not applicable to application.
Section 1194.26 Desktop and
Portable Computers
Not applicable to application.
Section 1194.31 Functional
Performance Criteria
Application has been developed to
conform to the Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0.
Relevant items in
this section are
supported.
Section 1194.41 Information,
Documentation and Support
Application has been developed to
conform to the Web Content
Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0.
Relevant items in
this section are
supported.
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Section 1194.21 Software Applications and Operating Systems – Detail
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(a) When software is designed to run on a system that
has a keyboard, product functions shall be executable
from a keyboard where the function itself or the result of
performing a function can be discerned textually.
(b) Applications shall not disrupt or disable activated
features of other products that are identified as
accessibility features, where those features are
developed and documented according to industry
standards. Applications also shall not disrupt or disable
activated features of any operating system that are
identified as accessibility features where the application
programming interface for those accessibility features
has been documented by the manufacturer of the
operating system and is available to the product
developer.
(c) A well-defined on-screen indication of the current
focus shall be provided that moves among interactive
interface elements as the input focus changes. The
focus shall be programmatically exposed so that
Assistive Technology can track focus and focus
changes.
(d) Sufficient information about a user interface element
including the identity, operation and state of the element
shall be available to Assistive Technology. When an
image represents a program element, the information
conveyed by the image must also be available in text.
(e) When bitmap images are used to identify controls,
status indicators, or other programmatic elements, the
meaning assigned to those images shall be consistent
throughout an application's performance.
Supporting
Features
Remarks and
explanations
Supported
Access is via a web
browser and input can be
completed from a
keyboard.
Supported
Access is via a web
browser and features do
not disable or prevent the
normal functioning of
assistive technology.
Supported
Focus information is
available to assistive
technologies when using
supported web browsers.
Supported
All images used have text
associated with them and
all parts of the user
interface are accessible
by assistive technologies.
Supported
All images associated
with controls have text
associated with them that
conforms to their
functionality.
Text is displayed through
(f) Textual information shall be provided through
web browsers, which
operating system functions for displaying text. The
Not Applicable makes the text accessible
minimum information that shall be made available is text
through document object
content, text input caret location, and text attributes.
modules (DOM).
(g) Applications shall not override user selected contrast
and color selections and other individual display
Supported
attributes.
(h) When animation is displayed, the information shall
Color and contrast
selections are not
overridden.
Not Applicable
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be displayable in at least one non-animated presentation
mode at the option of the user.
(i) Color coding shall not be used as the only means of
conveying information, indicating an action, prompting a
response, or distinguishing a visual element.
Supported
(j) When a product permits a user to adjust color and
contrast settings, a variety of color selections capable of
producing a range of contrast levels shall be provided.
Color is not used as the
only means of
Not Applicable
communicating
information.
(k) Software shall not use flashing or blinking text,
objects, or other elements having a flash or blink
frequency greater than 2 Hz and lower than 55 Hz.
Supported
Flashing or blinking text
or objects are not used.
(l) When electronic forms are used, the form shall allow
people using Assistive Technology to access the
information, field elements, and functionality required for Supported
completion and submission of the form, including all
directions and cues.
Users of assistive
technology can use
information in forms and
can complete all forms.
No animation is used.
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Section 1194.22 Web-based Internet information and applications – Detail
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Criteria
Supporting
Features
Remarks and
explanations
(a) A text equivalent for every non-text element
shall be provided (e.g., via "alt", "longdesc", or in
element content).
Supported
All non-text elements include
alternate text.
(b) Equivalent alternatives for any multimedia
presentation shall be synchronized with the
presentation.
Not Applicable
No multi-media is used.
(c) Web pages shall be designed so that all
information conveyed with color is also available
Supported
without color, for example from context or markup.
Color is not required to
understand any information as
all meaning conveyed with
color is supplemented.
(d) Documents shall be organized so they are
readable without requiring an associated style
sheet.
Style sheets are required
Not Supported
(e) Redundant text links shall be provided for each
Not Applicable
active region of a server-side image map.
Server-side image maps are
not used.
(f) Client-side image maps shall be provided
instead of server-side image maps except where
the regions cannot be defined with an available
geometric shape.
Client-side image maps are
not used.
Not Applicable
(g) Row and column headers shall be identified for
Supported
data tables.
Row and column headers
include labels and data tables
include a description of what is
in the table.
(h) Markup shall be used to associate data cells
and header cells for data tables that have two or
more logical levels of row or column headers.
Not Applicable
Only one level of column and
row headers is used.
(i) Frames shall be titled with text that facilitates
frame identification and navigation
Not Supported
Only one feature in product
uses an iFrame
(j) Pages shall be designed to avoid causing the
screen to flicker with a frequency greater than 2
Hz and lower than 55 Hz.
Supported
Flashing or blinking text or
objects are not used.
(k) A text-only page, with equivalent information or
functionality, shall be provided to make a web site
comply with the provisions of this part, when
Not Applicable
compliance cannot be accomplished in any other
way. The content of the text-only page shall be
updated whenever the primary page changes.
WCAG standards are
supported, which makes the
text accessible without
requiring the text-only page.
(l) When pages utilize scripting languages to
display content, or to create interface elements,
When scripting is used, it
provides functional text that
Supported
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the information provided by the script shall be
identified with functional text that can be read by
Assistive Technology.
(m) When a web page requires that an applet,
plug-in or other application be present on the
client system to interpret page content, the page
must provide a link to a plug-in or applet that
complies with §1194.21(a) through (l).
can be read by assistive
technology.
Not Applicable
No applets or plug- ins are
used.
(n) When electronic forms are designed to be
completed on-line, the form shall allow people
using Assistive Technology to access the
information, field elements, and functionality
required for completion and submission of the
form, including all directions and cues.
Supported
All forms are accessible,
including directions and cues,
and can be competed and
submitted using assistive
technology.
(o) A method shall be provided that permits users
to skip repetitive navigation links.
Supported
Users can skip navigation to
jump to menus and context
area.
(p) When a timed response is required, the user
shall be alerted and given sufficient time to
indicate more time is required.
Supported
Users are provided sufficient
time to complete responses.
Note to 1194.22: The Board interprets paragraphs (a) through (k) of this section as consistent with the following
priority 1 Checkpoints of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1.0) (May 5 1999) published by the
Web Accessibility Initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium: Paragraph (a) - 1.1, (b) - 1.4, (c) - 2.1, (d) - 6.1,
(e) - 1.2, (f) - 9.1, (g) - 5.1, (h) - 5.2, (i) - 12.1, (j) - 7.1, (k) - 11.4.
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Section 1194.23 Telecommunications Products – Detail
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Supporting
Features
(a) Telecommunications products or systems which
provide a function allowing voice communication and
which do not themselves provide a TTY functionality shall
provide a standard non-acoustic connection point for
TTYs. Microphones shall be capable of being turned on
and off to allow the user to intermix speech with TTY use.
Not Applicable
(b) Telecommunications products which include voice
communication functionality shall support all commonly
used cross-manufacturer non-proprietary standard TTY
signal protocols.
Not Applicable
(c) Voice mail, auto-attendant, and interactive voice
response telecommunications systems shall be usable by
TTY users with their TTYs.
Not Applicable
Remarks and
explanations
(d) Voice mail, messaging, auto-attendant, and interactive
voice response telecommunications systems that require a
response from a user within a time interval, shall give an
Not Applicable
alert when the time interval is about to run out, and shall
provide sufficient time for the user to indicate more time is
required.
(e) Where provided, caller identification and similar
telecommunications functions shall also be available for
users of TTYs, and for users who cannot see displays.
Not Applicable
(f) For transmitted voice signals, telecommunications
products shall provide a gain adjustable up to a minimum
of 20 dB. For incremental volume control, at least one
intermediate step of 12 dB of gain shall be provided.
Not Applicable
(g) If the telecommunications product allows a user to
adjust the receive volume, a function shall be provided to
automatically reset the volume to the default level after
every use.
Not Applicable
(h) Where a telecommunications product delivers output
by an audio transducer which is normally held up to the
ear, a means for effective magnetic wireless coupling to
hearing technologies shall be provided.
Not Applicable
(i) Interference to hearing technologies (including hearing
aids, cochlear implants, and assistive listening devices)
shall be reduced to the lowest possible level that allows a
user of hearing technologies to utilize the
telecommunications product.
Not Applicable
(j) Products that transmit or conduct information or
Not Applicable
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communication, shall pass through cross-manufacturer,
non-proprietary, industry-standard codes, translation
protocols, formats or other information necessary to
provide the information or communication in a usable
format. Technologies which use encoding, signal
compression, format transformation, or similar techniques
shall not remove information needed for access or shall
restore it upon delivery.
(k)(1) Products which have mechanically operated controls
or keys shall comply with the following: Controls and Keys
Not Applicable
shall be tactilely discernible without activating the controls
or keys.
(k)(2) Products which have mechanically operated controls
or keys shall comply with the following: Controls and Keys
shall be operable with one hand and shall not require tight
Not Applicable
grasping, pinching, twisting of the wrist. The force required
to activate controls and keys shall be 5 lbs. (22.2N)
maximum.
(k)(3) Products which have mechanically operated controls
or keys shall comply with the following: If key repeat is
supported, the delay before repeat shall be adjustable to
Not Applicable
at least 2 seconds. Key repeat rate shall be adjustable to 2
seconds per character.
(k)(4) Products which have mechanically operated controls
or keys shall comply with the following: The status of all
Not Applicable
locking or toggle controls or keys shall be visually
discernible, and discernible either through touch or sound.
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Section 1194.24 Video and Multi-media Products – Detail
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Supporting
Features
a) All analog television displays 13 inches and larger, and
computer equipment that includes analog television receiver
or display circuitry, shall be equipped with caption decoder
circuitry which appropriately receives, decodes, and displays
closed captions from broadcast, cable, videotape, and DVD
signals. As soon as practicable, but not later than July 1,
2002, widescreen digital television (DTV) displays measuring
at least 7.8 inches vertically, DTV sets with conventional
displays measuring at least 13 inches vertically, and standalone DTV tuners, whether or not they are marketed with
display screens, and computer equipment that includes DTV
receiver or display circuitry, shall be equipped with caption
decoder circuitry which appropriately receives, decodes, and
displays closed captions from broadcast, cable, videotape,
and DVD signals.
Not Applicable
(b) Television tuners, including tuner cards for use in
computers, shall be equipped with secondary audio program
playback circuitry.
Not Applicable
(c) All training and informational video and multimedia
productions which support the agency's mission, regardless
of format, that contain speech or other audio information
necessary for the comprehension of the content, shall be
open or closed captioned.
Not Applicable
(d) All training and informational video and multimedia
productions which support the agency's mission, regardless
of format, that contain visual information necessary for the
comprehension of the content, shall be audio described.
Not Applicable
(e) Display or presentation of alternate text presentation or
audio descriptions shall be user-selectable unless
permanent.
Not Applicable
Remarks and
explanations
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Section 1194.25 Self-Contained, Closed Products – Detail
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Supporting
Features
(a) Self contained products shall be usable by people with
disabilities without requiring an end-user to attach Assistive
Technology to the product. Personal headsets for private
listening are not Assistive Technology.
Not Applicable
(b) When a timed response is required, the user shall be
alerted and given sufficient time to indicate more time is
required.
Not Applicable
(c) Where a product utilizes touchscreens or contactsensitive controls, an input method shall be provided that
complies with §1194.23 (k) (1) through (4).
Not Applicable
(d) When biometric forms of user identification or control are
used, an alternative form of identification or activation, which
does not require the user to possess particular biological
characteristics, shall also be provided.
Not Applicable
(e) When products provide auditory output, the audio signal
shall be provided at a standard signal level through an
industry standard connector that will allow for private
listening. The product must provide the ability to interrupt,
pause, and restart the audio at anytime.
Not Applicable
(f) When products deliver voice output in a public area,
incremental volume control shall be provided with output
amplification up to a level of at least 65 dB. Where the
ambient noise level of the environment is above 45 dB, a
volume gain of at least 20 dB above the ambient level shall
be user selectable. A function shall be provided to
automatically reset the volume to the default level after every
use.
Not Applicable
(g) Color coding shall not be used as the only means of
conveying information, indicating an action, prompting a
response, or distinguishing a visual element.
Not Applicable
(h) When a product permits a user to adjust color and
contrast settings, a range of color selections capable of
producing a variety of contrast levels shall be provided.
Not Applicable
(i) Products shall be designed to avoid causing the screen to
flicker with a frequency greater than 2 Hz and lower than 55
Hz.
Not Applicable
Remarks and
explanations
(j) (1) Products which are freestanding, non-portable, and
intended to be used in one location and which have operable
Not Applicable
controls shall comply with the following: The position of any
operable control shall be determined with respect to a vertical
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plane, which is 48 inches in length, centered on the operable
control, and at the maximum protrusion of the product within
the 48 inch length on products which are freestanding, nonportable, and intended to be used in one location and which
have operable controls.
(j)(2) Products which are freestanding, non-portable, and
intended to be used in one location and which have operable
controls shall comply with the following: Where any operable
control is 10 inches or less behind the reference plane, the
height shall be 54 inches maximum and 15 inches minimum
above the floor.
Not Applicable
(j)(3) Products which are freestanding, non-portable, and
intended to be used in one location and which have operable
controls shall comply with the following: Where any operable
control is more than 10 inches and not more than 24 inches
behind the reference plane, the height shall be 46 inches
maximum and 15 inches minimum above the floor.
Not Applicable
(j)(4) Products which are freestanding, non-portable, and
intended to be used in one location and which have operable
controls shall comply with the following: Operable controls
shall not be more than 24 inches behind the reference plane.
Not Applicable
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Section 1194.26 Desktop and Portable Computers – Detail
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Supporting
Features
(a) All mechanically operated controls and keys shall
comply with §1194.23 (k) (1) through (4).
Not Applicable
(b) If a product utilizes touchscreens or touch-operated
controls, an input method shall be provided that complies
with §1194.23 (k) (1) through (4).
Not Applicable
(c) When biometric forms of user identification or control
are used, an alternative form of identification or activation,
which does not require the user to possess particular
biological characteristics, shall also be provided.
Not Applicable
(d) Where provided, at least one of each type of expansion
slots, ports and connectors shall comply with publicly
available industry standards
Not Applicable
Remarks and
explanations
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Section 1194.31 Functional Performance Criteria – Detail
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(a) At least one mode of operation and
information retrieval that does not require user
vision shall be provided, or support for Assistive
Technology used by people who are blind or
visually impaired shall be provided.
Supporting
Features
Remarks and
explanations
Supported
Information is delivered via a
web browser and assistive
technology can be used with
the browsers.
(b) At least one mode of operation and
information retrieval that does not require visual
acuity greater than 20/70 shall be provided in
audio and enlarged print output working together
or independently, or support for Assistive
Technology used by people who are visually
impaired shall be provided.
Supported
Information is delivered via a
web browser and assistive
technology can be used with
the browsers.
(c) At least one mode of operation and
information retrieval that does not require user
hearing shall be provided, or support for
Assistive Technology used by people who are
deaf or hard of hearing shall be provided
Not Applicable
No sounds are produced.
(d) Where audio information is important for the
use of a product, at least one mode of operation
and information retrieval shall be provided in an
enhanced auditory fashion, or support for
assistive hearing devices shall be provided.
Not Applicable
No audio information is
produced.
(e) At least one mode of operation and
information retrieval that does not require user
speech shall be provided, or support for Assistive Not Applicable
Technology used by people with disabilities shall
be provided.
No speech is required to
perform any function.
(f) At least one mode of operation and
information retrieval that does not require fine
motor control or simultaneous actions and that is
operable with limited reach and strength shall be
provided.
All functions are accessible via
browser and no fine motor
control or simultaneous actions
are required. Assistive
technology can be used.
Supported
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Section 1194.41 Information, Documentation and Support – Detail
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Supporting
Features
(a) Product support documentation
provided to end-users shall be made
available in alternate formats upon
request, at no additional charge
Supported
(b) End-users shall have access to a
description of the accessibility and
compatibility features of products in
alternate formats or alternate methods
upon request, at no additional charge.
Not Applicable
(c) Support services for products shall
accommodate the communication needs
of end-users with disabilities.
Not Applicable
Remarks and
explanations
Fischer will provide
documentation in a larger font at
no additional charge.
Fischer will communicate with
end users with disabilities upon
request at no additional charge.
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